12 Million People Downloaded Office for iPad - Microsoft

Just a week after the official release, iWork's main rival - Office for iPad - managed to set a new App Store record. Microsoft on Thursday announced 12 million downloads of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. What a result, huh?

In fact, these apps are so much popular that they occupied the first three spots of the best free apps rating on the App Store.

Here's what the guys from Redmond tweeted on Thursday:

More than 12 million downloads of Word, Excel, PPT & OneNote for #iPad from the @AppStore

A couple of days ago, Apple updated its iWork suite with a number of new features and design tweaks to compete with Office for iPad.

Microsoft's Office for iPad allows to create, edit and view documents using a tablet. However, in order to be fully functional, all the apps require Office 365 subscription.

In case you got interested, Office for iPad is available on the App Store.